Journey through Western Mongolia by Ney Elias Jr. RGS 1873 old antique map
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'Map to Illustrate a Journey through Western Mongolia by Ney Elias Junr. F.R.G.S. July 1872 to Jan 1873'
Original lithographed map illustrating the journey of Ney Elias, a figure regarded by modern scholars as likely to have served as a British intelligence asset during the era of the Great Game. Issued under the auspices of the Royal Geographical Society, the map traces Elias’s arduous expedition of 1872–73 across western Mongolia and the Gobi Desert, undertaken with a single Chinese servant and covering approximately 2,500 miles from the Great Wall to the Russian frontier, before continuing on to Nizhny Novgorod. Conducted amid regional instability associated with the Tungani rebellion, the journey demanded exceptional endurance: under constant threat of rebel attack, Elias is said to have slept scarcely at all, and upon reaching the Siberian frontier Russian officers reportedly “stared at him as if he had dropped from the sky.” His geographical observations were widely praised for their scientific accuracy by authorities including Sir Henry Rawlinson and Sir Henry Yule, earning him the Founder's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society in 1873.
Size 46 x 62 cm | 18.0 x 24.0 inches
Date Published: 1873
Type: Antique Royal Geographical Society map with related text pages
Author: Royal Geographical Society
Publication: The Geographical Journal
Condition: Good |
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